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List of years in poetry (table)
In literature
1659
1660
1661
1662
1663
1664
1665
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Works published

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  • Sir Aston Cockayne, Poems, second edition of Small Poems of Divers Sorts 1658[2]
  • John Dryden, To My Lord Chancellor, Presented on New-Years-Day[2]
  • Michael Wigglesworth, The Day of Doom or a Poetical Description of the Great and Last Judgment, a "doggerel epitome of Calvinistic theology", according to the anthology, Colonial Prose and Poetry (1903), that "attained immediately a phenomenal popularity. Eighteen hundred copies were sold within a year, and for the next century it held a secure place in [New England] Puritan households. As late as 1828 it was stated that many aged persons were still alive who could repeat it, as it had been taught them with their catechism; and the more widely one reads in the voluminous sermons of that generation, the more fair will its representation of prevailing theology in New England appear."[3] English-born clergyman published in New England.

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Births

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Deaths

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See also

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Notes

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  1. ^ Mark Van Doren, John Dryden: A Study of His Poetry, p 14, Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, second edition, 1946 ("First Midland Book edition 1960")
  2. ^ a b Cox, Michael, ed. (2004). The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-860634-6.
  3. ^ Trent, William P.; Wells, Benjamin W., eds. (1901). Colonial Prose and Poetry: The Beginnings of Americanism 1650-1710. Vol. 2. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co. pp. 47–48.
  4. ^ Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press